Lonoke County, Arkansas. Cooperative Extension Service. We are part of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Serviceâs statewide network and the University of Arkansas Systemâs Division of Agriculture.
Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years.
Captain Meriwether Lewis was only 35 when he died of gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen on October 10, 1809. (Newscom) Controversy over Lewis' death has descendants and scholars campaigning to exhume his body at his grave site in Tennessee.